LikeToRead - Embedded test lessons, raps, study, and fun. Ideas to use all year. First Do No Harm article to explain why it doesn't help to drill test taking What About Your School's Test Scores? how to frame your school's test scores by Eric Jensen Educational Leadership - Timed Tests Lead to Math Anxiety Battling the Test Prep Blues - Scholastic offers alternatives to traditional test prep. Added 4/2/13. VIDEOS from Calkins you could use in staff development or actually show to the kids. The lessons show teachers at work with students talking through testing as a genre. Added 4/15/13.
EXPLANATION
LikeToRead - Embedded test lessons, raps, study, and fun. Ideas to use all year.First Do No Harm article to explain why it doesn't help to drill test taking
What About Your School's Test Scores? how to frame your school's test scores by Eric Jensen
Educational Leadership - Timed Tests Lead to Math Anxiety
Battling the Test Prep Blues - Scholastic offers alternatives to traditional test prep. Added 4/2/13.
VIDEOS from Calkins you could use in staff development or actually show to the kids. The lessons show teachers at work with students talking through testing as a genre. Added 4/15/13.
INPSPIRATIONAL VIDEOS
Test Taker Face videoRock This Testvideo - one of my favorites
My Pencil this video
Steubing Elem. STAAR-lem ShakeVideo Added 4/22/13.
GAMES
Build Your Own Jeopardy GameAlternatives to Test Prep
SAMPLE SELECTIONS
NC State one-page selections with questions for practiceSmarter Balance Assessments - samples and explanations
Smarter Balanced Common Core ELA Item and Task Specifications; Reading and Research Holistic Rubric; primary tasks
Center for Urban Education Resources - One Page Readings
ReadWorks.org - FREE nonfiction reading passages and lessons classified by skill and grade level. Lexiled. Added 3/22/13
PAARC descriptors for each grade level as of April